For those of you haven't already gone to the trouble to watch the RealVideo of the newscast, go see it now. It's hilarious--I love reporting that acts so seriously.
I'm just glad I'm not an AOL user getting barraged with copies of this.
I'll stick with fully free distributions like Red Hat and Debian. The thought of a proprietized Linux-based OS really scares me.
Firstly, Redhat is as much of an enemy as S.u.S.E. Secondly, S.u.S.E. has demonstrated a great willingness to support XFree86 by hiring Dirk Hohndel. That along has done more than anything Redhat has done to ensure that XFree86 remains current and supporting the display adapter chipsets most people use.
Both Red Hat and S.u.S.E. are too commercial for me. However, S.u.S.E. has a great advantange if you are a German; Red Hat has no advantages at all.
NT will smoke a GNU system on an Alpha (such as GNU/Linux) because the gcc backend for the Alpha does not produce as good of code as Digital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq's compiler does. Of course, a comparison of OSF/1 vs. NT would probably have OSF/1 in the leaf {smile}.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mindcraft picked up some Alphas and used them to show how inferior GNU/Linux is. Of course, we could reply back with some Sun hardware then.
AT&T Unices and friends (e.g. BSD) have an rm(1) that understands the - parameter--e.g, rm - -rf. GNU rm(1) uses GNU getopt(3) which supports -- to indicate end of options (interpret rest of arguments as non-options); e.g. rm -- -rf.
Use the write operating system and hardware for your job. If all you want to is stuff out files via HTTP at a tremendous rate, tune Apache and run it on FreeBSD. If you actually want to get some work done, use Solaris/USparc for high-end or GNU/Linux for low-end to medium-end. If you want to run a server for Outlook 98 clients, use NT.
I sure hope this doesn't mean IBM is going to use their accursed Dolphin multimedia adapter. {grin} The Mwave 2780DSP is the worse curse that satan has yet sent to us. ``Lord, save us from the Mwave, and lead us not near Dolphin adapters.'' (The Dolphin is what comes with the Aptiva, and makes its modem and audio subsystem malfunction).
The EverBlue project is meaningless. We can port most Unix programs with EMX and XFree86 on OS/2 today. EverBlue is waste of time; it would be easier and better to write a PM-based Xserver (basically, a replacement for PMX).
Wine does not run most Win32 apps. Wine can run a few apps, and you can take an app and make it work under Wine (like I did with a very weird Win16 program I have to use--and no, it didn't work under Win-OS/2 for reasons too painful to detail here), but it's not even close to ``Most Win32 apps''.
I don't think you realise what's involved with making Linux run under OS/2. I'm working on it, and it's difficult, mostly due to the poor architecture of OS/2. OS/2's lack of any security really hurts too (and please don't point me to SES--it's a joke). OS/2 PM remains shackled by the SIQ bug. There is also absolutely no network support for PM like there is with X11 (other than my yet-to-be-released XCLIENT program). Finally, writing OS/2 drivers is very painful. Linux has a much better driver model.
I've read JWZ's rantings. While they do highlight some problems, what's valuable to me with formats like mbox is the openness and simplicity--it's simply a bunch of textual lines with a format you understand as soon as you see it.
I'm not sure what JWZ wants. He doesn't like X11 (yes, X11 has faults, but it's far better than any other windowing system and it's also freed), complains about Unix, feels that Mozilla failed (when it hasn't--M5 is pretty good, although I'm still waiting for something release-quality), and goes on and on about the glories of IRIX (which is an embodiment of everything I would not want in an operating system).
I'm sorry, but *how* can Netscape's mail database ``go hairy''? At worst, you can just rm -f ~/nsmail/.*.summary (or delete the SNM files if you're a Windows user).
One of the nice things about mbox format is that it's incorruptible.
Find a linux driver for that, or show me double-buffered hardware accelerated 3D graphics on linux
We XFree86 people are working on it. We've already got multihead working.
The GGI/KGI people are working on better 3-D hardware support; note that one problem is refusal of manufacturers to release specifications. That said, a Sun running Solaris is still better for your application than GNU/Linux at the moment, but when we get XFree86 4.0 out and KGI/GGI stabilises GNU/Linux will be just a bit better {grin}.
Ever say "No thanks, I have enough RAM"?
Yes--I've used the IBM Enhanced 80386 Memory Expansion Adapter (I had it before the ECA came out for it). {scream}
I certanily appreciated Donald's work as well, as a user of the Token Ring device driver. It still doesn't work correctly with PCMCIA Turbo Token Ring Adapters (and has a few problems with Turbo adapters in general)--someday I'll get around to fixing them. I'm just glad that somebody works on Token Ring at all, as it hadn't been touched for few years since the Linux 1.3 Microchannel effort until Donald started editing ibmtr.c again.
Thankyou very much, Donald--and thank you also for resetting my adapter {grin}.
As a regular eBay user (I buy old PS/2 parts), I recently got an updated usage agreement which said that selling `vanity proprety' is not permitted. I don't have the definition of it handy (as I only buy cold, hard Microchannel longies and shorties), but AFAICT this would fall under that. eBay probably doesn't want the bad reputation that would come from this, either; they're trying to clean up their image anyways.
Anyone more knowledgable than I want to comment? Any eBay employees here (feel free to post anonymously)?
This isn't news (I recall reading about a similar achievment by BT last year in Data Communications[1]; the scientists had come up with a wall-sized LCD-based display for videoconferencing, a 25 sq. cm. LCD panel for status panels or embedding in T-shirts[2], and a 1 sq. m. sized display with wild-eyed uses such as a stained-glass window replacement). It's still pretty cool though--but the day my 8573-401's plasma display panel is taken from me is the day it's pried from my cold, dead, RSIed fingers.
Cheers, Joshua.
[1] I like that domain name.
[2] One idea was for advertising (production cost was very low).
...how music can be made `secure'. Unless record companies commandeer control of my audio chipset, including its DAC, and my phono jack on the back of my PC, how can they prevent unlicenced copying of music? At the moment it's as simple to install a freely-available audio driver that captures outgoing data to instantly remove any copy protection from any music playable from a PC.
My opinion is that people will pay for convenience in getting music--most people won't mind spending $10 so they can download their favorite song with ease. The antisocialites will continue to operate in an unlicenced fasion as they always have. And then there will be those such as I who don't listen to any non-freed music {grin}.
As I observed during a recent/poll that my left thumb is neglected during my vapid typing, I would be more than pleased to strab the aforementioned device to my left thumb. However, I fear its effectiveness will be somewhat marginal as a textual input device--a replacement for my pointing device[0] on my left thumb would be quite welcome.
Cheers, Joshua "No more hate mail, please" Rodd
[0] Yes, I've read too many IBM manuals. I have a fixed disk within my system unit (to which a pointing device is attached) whereupon rests a color display...
I'll have to credit Katz this time (as much as I don't want to =). He's very accurate in pointing out that the risk of being sexually abused as a child is *much* higher than of being involved in a school shooting. Most people in the U.S. refuse to deal with how serious a problem this is, but it seems that a great deal of the people I know have been abused (10%?). It's not funny at all.
It's also not funny how the U.S. government can rain down bombs on villages in Yugoslavia and then pontificate on the tragedy of 20 dead highschoolers. Both incidents are tragic, but how can we complain when death and destruction are raining down on innocent people by our own government even as a type?
The world has so many problems. There's only one solution, and it's for people to follow Christ--sadly, most people can't even do that (esp. those who claim to be `Christians'). Thank God life is short--only 75 or more years (OTOH, much of it will be spent hacking, which makes up for the bad parts).
OTOH, I'm not sure if I really were slashdotted, as I was running Apache for OS/2 at the time which is not exactly a reference work on software that can handle high loads.
Be sure to go check out Patriarch Magazine's website. It's got both articles on the proper place of woman, important information your family must know to prepare for Y2K, and general prattling on the glory of patriarchy (I'm not against men taking responsibility and being good people, but it's possible to go too far).
It is a first other solar system discovered in the same sense that about half of the/. population made a first post today.
Part of the problem is that those arrangements of gas cloused are so far away no–one really knows what is going on. We can't see it too well, and can't conduct any experiments. It's also in a different zone of time than ourself (albeit but a few dozen years).
Cheers, Joshua "I should have used dc to calculate the number of years so someone wouldn't humiliate me" Rodd
Originally there was BSD/386 (which tended to use X386). BSDi sold commercial copies; when Berkeley's advanced computer lab closed down, FreeBSD formed. It forked into NetBSD and then OpenBSD because of the usual internal strife. So now there are really four major BSD distributions--BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. I like OpenBSD best myself.
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I'm just glad I'm not an AOL user getting barraged with copies of this.
For those too lazy to cut and paste, here you go.
Firstly, Redhat is as much of an enemy as S.u.S.E. Secondly, S.u.S.E. has demonstrated a great willingness to support XFree86 by hiring Dirk Hohndel. That along has done more than anything Redhat has done to ensure that XFree86 remains current and supporting the display adapter chipsets most people use.
Both Red Hat and S.u.S.E. are too commercial for me. However, S.u.S.E. has a great advantange if you are a German; Red Hat has no advantages at all.
Cheers,
Joshua "I dislike Motif" Rodd
Yahoo, which gets more hits than any other specific site, runs FreeBSD. I suppose they aren't a commercial site, though.{/sarcasm}
I doubt BBN keeps pets in their data center.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mindcraft picked up some Alphas and used them to show how inferior GNU/Linux is. Of course, we could reply back with some Sun hardware then.
Cheers,
Joshua.
Use the write operating system and hardware for your job. If all you want to is stuff out files via HTTP at a tremendous rate, tune Apache and run it on FreeBSD. If you actually want to get some work done, use Solaris/USparc for high-end or GNU/Linux for low-end to medium-end. If you want to run a server for Outlook 98 clients, use NT.
Cheers, as always,
Joshua.
I'm not sure what JWZ wants. He doesn't like X11 (yes, X11 has faults, but it's far better than any other windowing system and it's also freed), complains about Unix, feels that Mozilla failed (when it hasn't--M5 is pretty good, although I'm still waiting for something release-quality), and goes on and on about the glories of IRIX (which is an embodiment of everything I would not want in an operating system).
One of the nice things about mbox format is that it's incorruptible.
Cheers,
Joshua.
We XFree86 people are working on it. We've already got multihead working.
The GGI/KGI people are working on better 3-D hardware support; note that one problem is refusal of manufacturers to release specifications. That said, a Sun running Solaris is still better for your application than GNU/Linux at the moment, but when we get XFree86 4.0 out and KGI/GGI stabilises GNU/Linux will be just a bit better {grin}.
Ever say "No thanks, I have enough RAM"?
Yes--I've used the IBM Enhanced 80386 Memory Expansion Adapter (I had it before the ECA came out for it). {scream}
Cheers,
Joshua.
Thankyou very much, Donald--and thank you also for resetting my adapter {grin}.
Cheers,
Joshua.
Anyone more knowledgable than I want to comment? Any eBay employees here (feel free to post anonymously)?
Cheers,
Joshua.
Biggest problem is that plasma doesn't do low-intensity very well. Other than that, they are a dream come true for my otherwise abused eyes.
Cheers,
Joshua.
[1] I like that domain name.
[2] One idea was for advertising (production cost was very low).
My opinion is that people will pay for convenience in getting music--most people won't mind spending $10 so they can download their favorite song with ease. The antisocialites will continue to operate in an unlicenced fasion as they always have. And then there will be those such as I who don't listen to any non-freed music {grin}.
Cheers,
Joshua.
Cheers,
Joshua "No more hate mail, please" Rodd
[0] Yes, I've read too many IBM manuals. I have a fixed disk within my system unit (to which a pointing device is attached) whereupon rests a color display...
It's also not funny how the U.S. government can rain down bombs on villages in Yugoslavia and then pontificate on the tragedy of 20 dead highschoolers. Both incidents are tragic, but how can we complain when death and destruction are raining down on innocent people by our own government even as a type?
The world has so many problems. There's only one solution, and it's for people to follow Christ--sadly, most people can't even do that (esp. those who claim to be `Christians'). Thank God life is short--only 75 or more years (OTOH, much of it will be spent hacking, which makes up for the bad parts).
OTOH, I'm not sure if I really were slashdotted, as I was running Apache for OS/2 at the time which is not exactly a reference work on software that can handle high loads.
Cheers, as always,
Joshua.
Have fun.
but that would be integrated into the sound card ASIC instead of added as discrete components like this.
Most sound cards I've seen lately (actually, all of them) use a DSP. So the MP3 enc/dec would just be another DSP program.
IBM's Mwave DSP already has MPEG audio support (it does work, but it tends to make the DSP crash. A DSP crash is no fun because it discos your modem.)
Part of the problem is that those arrangements of gas cloused are so far away no–one really knows what is going on. We can't see it too well, and can't conduct any experiments. It's also in a different zone of time than ourself (albeit but a few dozen years).
Cheers,
Joshua "I should have used dc to calculate the number of years so someone wouldn't humiliate me" Rodd
Originally there was BSD/386 (which tended to use X386). BSDi sold commercial copies; when Berkeley's advanced computer lab closed down, FreeBSD formed. It forked into NetBSD and then OpenBSD because of the usual internal strife. So now there are really four major BSD distributions--BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. I like OpenBSD best myself.